Home time!

I'm back in America for a couple of weeks, so I'll have to try to catch up on a lot of Japan stuff in January. For now, I'm spending all my time with family and friends~! I missed everyone so much!

Tonight I'm spending the night at my best friend Diana's house. Here she is with her husband and baby. I'm very happy that the baby Leena LOVES me even though I haven't been around during her first year of life. Aunty Steffie will come back...... sooner or later.

Hofu Flea Market 2

It is strange to be at the point where I've already written about these things before. I never thought that I would re-contract...I thought I'd be home to America by now. But here I am. A year has gone by since last year's annual flea market.

Wonder if there will be a third flea market to write about...

So this picture is suppose to be at the very bottom, but that means that I needed to upload it first, and I forgot. I can't drag it down. Blogspot annoys me more than sporadically.

So pretend this is on the bottom. After finishing going around the flea market, we went to see a live production of Carmen. It was really difficult for me to understand. I don't speak French, and the Japanese was hard and fast! But it was fun to watch. I will continue to watch Japanese movies and such without subtitles, because it's the best way to practice!

Hello Mr. Policeperson Pufferfish! Or is it blowfish? Whichever it is, in Japanese, its Fugu. And it's my prefecture's specialty cuisine.

This year, Chris came down from Shimonoseki, which is great. There is Christina and Yoko. Yoko is a good friend. She is a T.V. maniac just like myself. Her favorite television show is "The 4400" and she knows about all shows! Shows that any given Japanese person has never heard of. We are currently watching "The Event" together.

You can see all the people in the Shotengai (covered shopping area). It's nice to see it busy, because more than 50% of the shop spaces in the Shotengai are vacant. The economy is really struggling around our area.

More fast cars! I like last year's better.

Desktop cleanup again :)

So today is basically 5 planned posts, but only using one of two pictures from each, and not bothering to write too much. Because these things are from so long ago!! Not that I didn't love them, but I can't be blogging about stuff that happened like half a century ago! :D Anyways, enjoy the pictures. This is my life. :)

Summer Sonic was really really amazing. I went with my friend Jessica. We are both crazy about Coheed and Cambria, which is who we went to see. And we both ended up liking Slash a bunch more. Claudio from Coheed was in, like a bad mood that day. He cut songs in half and was just a grumpy fellow.

I can't wait for the next music festival that rolls around! But music festivals make me miss my best friend Diana. hmmmmm. Gone are the days of us rocking out all night long. :D
This was just an amazing sunset that I noticed from the teachers room of one of my schools. Amazing.

This is forever ago. I got my hair cut in a bar, in front of dozens and dozens of people. It is pretty scary when the hair and make-up guy looks just as surprised as you!

He gave me a mullet.

More Choruru! I still love Choruru!!!

see last years post: here.

This was a nice day....all of my Japanese class went to a Coto concert. Coto is a traditional Japanese instrument.

I am glad that my Japanese class is all so friendly, and that we do lots of cultural things, and have meet-ups outside of class, and such. It's nice because I can't speak English, so it forces me to practice. :)

It was my first time hearing traditional Coto playing.

And that is all for now. Happy December! Going home in LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!! :)